Ed Sheeran Leaves Twitter Due To Abuse, Lady Gaga Supports Him

In an interview with The Sun, Ed Sheeran announced that he was quitting Twitter due to the harassment he was getting from various people on the service. Here are highlights:

On leaving Twitter: “I’ve actually come off Twitter completely. I can’t read it. I go on it and there’s nothing but people saying mean things. Twitter’s a platform for that. One comment ruins your day. But that’s why I’ve come off it. The head-f*** for me has been trying to work out why people dislike me so much.”

On getting support from people in his life: “I have people like my dad who will have a conversation with me. I don’t have to have someone calling me a whatever.”

On Lady Gaga’s fans: “Lady Gaga’s fanbase read an interview in which they assumed I was talking about her and they all f***ing hate. And it wasn’t anything to do with that at all. So I think Twitter gets on a massive steam roll of assuming things and then you get in the s***.”

Lady Gaga herself found out about the abuse and sent a message on Instagram to condemn it. She wrote: